Search and gnome-documents won't find local files

Hello all,
I can't say for sure whether this behavior started before or after I upgraded to GNOME 3.4. Anyway, this issue is that neither gnome-documents nor the default search from the Activities menu (does that still exist?) can find any of my local files. While I get no results at all from the Activities overview, the Documents application only shows my Google Docs documents. I have already checked tracker-preferences, and all the options seem ok (seeking all relevant directories, always refreshing). Have already tried calling tracker-control -rs and rebooting, too.
Is anyone else having this issue, not being able to perform searches on local files?
Thank you in advance.
EDIT: also, I have noticed that the tracker process (tracker-miner-fs) is using nearly 1GB of memory, causing the whole system to slow down.
Last edited by Renato_Ferreira (2012-04-30 02:16:21)

I'm having very similar problems. Local documents do not appear in my search results, and tracker-control --status appears stuck at 1% on my home directory.
Before installing/configuring xdg-user-dirs I had the same gstreamer errors in tracker-extract.log, but those appear resolved. Now I have a LOT of errors similar to the following:
03 May 2012, 21:44:38: Tracker-Critical **: Extraction task for 'file:///home/ryan/Documents/Desktop/Impact%20of%20Climate%20Change%20Water%20Industry.pdf' went rogue and took more than 20 seconds. Forcing exit.
and
03 May 2012, 21:46:30: Tracker-Warning **: Content extraction of PDF Timed out
EDIT: spoke too soon; it appears my local files are just taking a long time to index. tracker-control --status now indicates progress and some of the docs are starting to populate search results. HOWEVER, I'm still having the above errors with .pdf files. Do I need some supporting package (an unlisted dependency) to index .pdf files?
Last edited by rsking84 (2012-05-04 01:54:37)

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